U.S. Attorney's Office officials were in Hoboken today questioning people about Mayor Dawn Zimmer's, left, claim that the Christie administration told her that the city would only receive Sandy recovery funds if they aided a politically connected development project.
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HOBOKEN — The mayor of Hoboken said the U.S. Attorney’s Office was in her city today, two days after she alleged
members of Gov. Chris Christie’s administration threatened to withhold Hurricane Sandy aid if the city did not approve a real estate project.

Mayor Dawn Zimmer told The Star-Ledger this evening that members of the office, whom she met with on Sunday to discuss her claims, interviewed numerous people in the city.

“They were talking to people in Hoboken today,” she said. “They were definitely talking to people today.”

She also did not say who was interviewed, or how she learned of the new development.

Zimmer said tonight that she told numerous people — including Chief of Staff Daniel Bryan — about her allegations prior to making them public on Saturday.

“There are others that I did talk to,” Zimmer said. “I can’t go into who those others are. But there are others I talked to at the time.”

Zimmer said she “appreciates” that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has been so quick to look into her allegations, which include an assertions that Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno delivered a “direct message” from Christie when she told her to approve a redevelopment project if the flood-prone city wanted help getting federal disaster aid.

“Mayor Zimmer's version of our conversation in May of 2013 is not only false but is illogical and does not withstand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined,” Guadagno said during an event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “Any suggestion that Sandy funds were tied to the approval of any project in New Jersey is completely false.”